This episode revolves around the "rigorous" evaluation of ice cream flavors, and deciding which are truly Top Five. In an engaging and spirited discussion the Murphy siblings dig our spoons into our choices, presenting reasoned arguments for our choices while navigating the complexities of personal preference versus objective quality. Enjoy the lively banter and an exploration of nostalgic flavors that evoke cherished memories alongside the culinary debate regarding texture and taste. As we traverse through our selections, we invite listeners to reflect upon their own ice cream experiences, illustrating how these seemingly simple choices can encapsulate profound sentiments and familial connections. Ultimately, we aim to provide an entertaining yet insightful examination of ice cream, revealing how it transcends mere dessert to become a cultural and emotional touchstone.

Takeaways:

• The Murphy siblings engage in a playful discussion surrounding their top five ice cream flavors, emphasizing the nostalgic memories associated with each selection.
• Tim argues for the eternal nature of vanilla ice cream as a foundational flavor that serves as a baseline for all others.
• Skye passionately defends birthday cake ice cream with extra rainbow sprinkles.
• Meghan introduces her controversial choice of pineapple Dole Whip, highlighting its association with Disney vacations and summer enjoyment.
• Throughout the episode, the siblings exhibit a humorous and light-hearted banter, showcasing their strong familial bonds and shared experiences.
• The podcast culminates in a declarative discussion on the merits of various ice cream toppings, revealing the siblings' differing opinions on flavor combinations.

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Hello.

Hi, and welcome all to a new episode of Murphy's Rank the World, a podcast where us Murphy siblings get together and pretend to focus on sober and fair assessments of all sorts of things, but instead, most likely to go off on more than a few tangents and generally get butts.

I mean, get silly.

I mean, but get silly.

I told you.

I told you.

He'll read anything you put in chat.

That's why I put it in there.

Can we fix that in post?

What's post?

What's post?

Anyway, welcome.

I am Tim Murphy.

I am the middle sibling of the Murphy siblings.

Though if you are a dedicated listener of this podcast, you should already know that by now.

But I won't hold it against you.

Let's go ahead and introduce the rest of the siblings who are on the podcast today.

I'll go first.

Hello.

I'm Megan.

She her.

I'm the oldest.

I'll just say it now.

Before Sky, I was like, oh, by the way, Megan's the oldest.

I do it, I'll own it.

That's fine.

I know what I am.

The original.

Some would say the first and best.

And perhaps maybe the family should have stopped there.

But.

But there's at least three other of us who would argue that point.

You said it.

Danny would like to say something.

Yeah.

Oh, cats.

Cats on the podcast.

Oh, she's ignoring us.

Yeah.

There is a.

A cameo from Skye's cat Danny, who technically is a Murphy.

So.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Also, though, even if.

If Danny wasn't.

I'm not gonna tell her she can't be on the podcast.

Nuh.

So.

Hi, everybody.

Sky, I'm a Capricorn.

I technically am in the middle with Tim because we're even number.

So.

Just saying.

Yeah, start in line, though.

Third is best.

Wow.

I mean, that's almost nice.

Almost.

All right, so now that we've introduced ourselves, let's get to the topic of the day.

So, after great deliberation and adjudication, we have decided today's topic is going to be the top five ice cream flavors.

And we're not talking about your favorites.

The best, because once again, we are not here for your opinions.

We are here for your facts.

Objective facts.

Objective facts.

Yeah.

So I will go ahead and start things off today.

And we're going to be starting off with number five.

We're echoing.

Sky usually does the echoing, but they.

Are eating ice cream in my mouth.

Attacking me.

Rude.

Only one of us to bring topic appropriate props today.

Yes, sky is the carrot top of the Murphy family.

Ow.

That is unnecessary.

Oh, wait.

The Gallagher of the Murphy family.

Okay, now we're spitting out what's the best.

What's the best ice cream?

Tim, quick, before number five.

My.

My fifth top ice cream.

Good old vanilla.

I mean, you can't go wrong with vanilla.

Vanilla will always.

Vanilla has been here, will be here forever and always.

It is eternal.

When the cockroaches take over the planet, they'll be eating Twinkies and vanilla ice cream.

There is no way to avoid it.

It is inevitable.

The thanos of ice creams.

I.

I dare you to go to an ice cream shop and not find vanilla.

But it's not just because it's ubiquitous that I have it as number five.

I feel like vanilla is the ice cream flavor we all start with.

Like, that is your baseline.

That is the flavor to which all other ice cream flavors are compared.

Not only that, but vanilla ice cream also launches us into a completely other subset that we can argue, which is what is the appropriate sprinkles to go on vanilla ice cream?

So the answer.

Rainbow.

And it's only rainbow.

Thank you.

As you can see, the Murphy siblings are torn in a.

What we call the Jimmy Civil war of rainbow versus chocolate.

Sky has stated their position most emphatically.

And, you know, others can discuss their positions and flavor favorites if they want, but, you know, again, that could just be an argument for another podcast.

Or it relates to something I'm bringing up later.

Or it relates to something that.

Yeah, you know, we do that sometimes.

Good.

Sometimes we're good as Murphy siblings, setting one of us up and the other one can knock it out of the park.

Yeah, you said knock out of the park.

I'm like, knock them down.

Knock them down.

Out of the park.

Out of the park.

Right off the wall.

And then we hit them with one.

So.

And.

And my last piece on vanilla is.

I think it's also the best flavor in regards to whether you want soft serve or standard hard ice cream.

I think vanilla is one of the few ones that even though those textures change and there is a big texture difference between hard ice cream and soft ice cream, I think vanilla maintains its flavor integrity the best.

So that is why it is my number five with a bean.

Vanilla.

Okay, who's going next?

Sky.

Want me or do you want.

You wanna.

You wanna end these?

Yeah.

Or do you want to go next?

Want me to finish the Doritos or.

Oh, yes, the Doritos.

I'll.

I'll go.

Okay.

You can have first rebuttal or final say.

Oh, first rebuttal then that means you have to go next.

Yeah, go.

Where did Dandy go?

Oh, okay.

Sorry.

She looked like she, like, disappeared into the ether.

So this is along the same lines of what you're saying.

We didn't give a lot of parameters outside of saying flavor.

I took this as it could be a novelty as well as, like, the thing you buy in a tub and there's nothing with it.

Yeah.

You know what I'm saying?

I.

I will say I always appreciate that when it comes to the expansion of the rules, it's always usually sky who comes with the wild card.

So, first of all, you did not say I couldn't do holiday flavors.

Couldn't do.

We'll tell you later.

Oh, yeah.

Do it on air.

Yeah, Exactly.

Yeah.

Live corrections.

We do not let this fester or simmer.

We address it head on.

Correct.

That is why you're an Aries and she's a Scorpio and I'm a Capricorn.

Exactly.

Head on.

Apply directly to the forehead.

Why.

Why are you delaying?

What is this?

Come on.

Yeah, I feel like there's a lot of.

There was no delay.

Y'all interrupted me.

That's because I saw some fancy footwork out on the dance floor.

Yeah, like.

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

They're tapping.

Where is this going?

That's a buffalo shuffle if I ever saw one.

This is actually the first time I ever heard the term gilding.

The lily wasn't my sister and I went to local ice cream shop and I got something called birthday cake flavor, and I put more rainbow sprinkles on it, because for me, this beautiful flavor is birthday cake ice cream.

Now, you could have gone any color frosting, but it's the blue frosting that does it for me.

So birthday cake flavor, blue frosting and rainbow sprinkles.

And what I did was enough sprinkle.

I added more sprinkle.

That's my number five.

It's specifically birthday cake ice cream with extra rainbow sprinkles.

Correct.

And the blue frosting, you gotta have.

That, like, soft sweetness.

And then you get that creamy hit of blue frosting, and then your mouth is blue.

Oh, no, no.

This is great.

This is the level of minutia that our audience of what one.

Currently one right now really, really is.

Is feeling.

So.

No, no, I.

I love the specificity of the flavor.

So I don't know what it is.

Whatever frosting they use.

I don't know if it's cream cheese frosting or, like, a buttercream, but I've Tried to replicate that with other things, and I cannot hit that frosting note to save my life.

So that's how they get you.

It is.

All right, so I decided to start.

I.

Like, if.

If we're gonna go controversial and, like, I.

I feel like a 5 is a good spot for that.

So for me, my number five best ice cream flavor is a pineapple dole whip.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So explain to the non Disney heads out there, what is a pineapple dole whip?

Okay, well, like, you can get it at other place at Disney, but is it.

It does it for me, recall, like, you know, lucky enough to go on sibling vacations there.

Yes, of course.

So a dole whip in general is kind of like a fruity.

Like, it's almost like a sorbet.

I think it's a little creamier, depending, you know, on how they do the mix.

But the classic is the pineapple, and it's just, you know, it's this bright little sunny bit of yellow heaven.

That is deliciousness.

You're on vacation.

I can't really.

I mean, I guess technically I can get them here possibly.

Possibly celebrating surviving Hurricane Irma.

Yeah.

Well, you know what?

Everything tasted better that day.

Everything tasted sweeter.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And.

And sunshine a little brighter.

It was beautiful being a little sweeter.

Yeah, it was great.

Was there no ozone?

So I just burnt that day.

Yeah.

But I was alive, so Bad mountain.

Was probably the shortest it's ever been.

Everyone's smiling.

Hey, I'm alive.

You're alive.

I'm alive.

You're alive.

Yay.

Hey.

Hi.

Everyone waving to each other.

Right?

So, like, for me, pineapple dope is kind of like, you know, a solid sunshine and 5B, the orange vanilla swirl version of it, which is literally like a vanilla soft serve.

And what tastes like the orange juice concentrate, like, you would get out of the can.

Oh, oh.

Like, it feels forbidden.

People replicate it online.

It's orange concentrate.

Yeah, yeah.

Version of that orange vanilla mix.

Like, if you let it liquefy, it's like an Orange Julius.

Yeah, it's pretty great.

And, you know, so that.

That.

That is mine.

You're on vacation.

This is, you know, special thing.

Oh, let's go to Trader Sam's.

You know, like, boom.

That is instant.

Like, yeah, everything's great.

Trader Sam's my favorite place to get drunk off my ass at Disney.

My favorite place to watch my siblings get drunk off their asses and then make sure we all make it back to the hotel room.

Look, I mean, I know the one sibling who's not here.

It is potentially my fault for ordering the drink that's supposed to be for, like, two people just for myself.

I mean, you didn't help.

You did not help it, but, you know, that's okay.

But there was fire, and I sprinkled cinnamon in it.

And people were chanting.

They were.

And it sounds like we joined a cult.

I know.

It was great.

A second.

And there's a lot of cups to collect.

When you have to get through the alcohol to get to the cup.

What am I supposed to do?

Not what am I supposed to get one of?

Like, the brand new ones that are just by the front counter where they check you in.

No, no.

You pay the gold price for those.

We pay the iron price for the ones we take home.

Your liver pays the iron price.

By the time we're done, my liver probably will just be iron.

Yeah, but not with ice cream.

But not with ice cream.

Yeah.

Oh, wait.

We go in the same order.

Okay.

Right.

All right.

Yeah.

Now we're moving on to number four.

Four.

Four.

Four, four, four.

All right.

This is where I decided to go get my.

It's not controversial because it is incontrovertibly an ice cream flavor, but it's just obscure, and sometimes you need to just.

This is the stuff that's, like, in the back of the Wegmans freezer, usually with other flavors in front of it, because it's just so niche and so forgotten.

They're like, what kind of weirdo want to buy this?

But really, the question should be, why is Perry's producing it?

Because, you know, I can't eat it if someone doesn't make it for me.

So for number four, my flavor is Parker House.

And no, I just.

I didn't just pick that, because that's the name of my parents cat.

But so for those who are unaware, Parker House ice cream is amaretto ice cream with maraschino cherries.

So it is.

It is very rich, very strong.

Flavor wise.

They.

They.

That amaretto is very amaretto.

And of course, you know, everybody knows maraschino cherries.

The, you know, chernobyl red cherries that, you know, probably glow in the dark.

You know, the ones that actual cherry farmers are like, those are not cherries.

There's too much change that has occurred to them.

There's nothing natural about their color.

There's nothing natural about their flavor.

And that's probably why I like them so much.

But, yeah, I just.

I remember trying it once and just going, what is this?

Like, this.

Like, this ice cream has a conversation pit in its living room.

You know, this ice cream has probably gone to several key parties, you know.

Oh, yeah, this ice cream, you know, probably owns, you know, the Starland Vocal Bands, you know, sophomore album.

Not even their.

Their release that we all know the songs from.

Like, they're probably.

They were probably on the voting committee that gave the Grammy for Best New Artist to A Taste of Honey Over Boston and Journey.

So this is the type of ice cream we're talking about here.

But yeah, I would say, though, if you ever get a chance, try it.

You know, it, it.

It's one of those unique flavors that, you know, sort of got lost in time.

Like Poseidon's Fury at Universal Studios.

You know, you know, pour one out or.

I guess so.

Yeah.

So Parker House ice Cream, my number four on my list.

That's a poll, Tim.

All right, all right.

And all my thoughts wouldn't have gotten to Parker House.

Yeah, I got.

I wouldn't have got there.

All right.

Yeah.

But that's why we have these lists, is so we can remind each other.

Yeah.

Remind each other of the flavors of the past.

That's deep, man.

That is deep.

And so my number four.

Nice segue.

Thank you.

Seamless.

My God, Tim, you made me forget.

Wow, Tim, why would you do that?

Okay, so we're back.

Local grocery store makes a very particular type of this flavor.

I've tried it in other, like, big names and local big names, and this is the only one that I like.

And I don't know if it's the amount of this herb that they put in it or seasoning.

I don't know actually what the difference between a seasoning and herb is.

Needless to say, that's what I'll ask my.

My smile.

My smouse.

My spouse.

Cinnamon.

It's cinnamon flavored ice cream.

Makes an incredible cinnamon flavored ice cream.

Now, is it heavy on cinnamon?

Light on cinnamon?

Like, what?

What?

How would you.

I would say, I don't know if they use specifically like cinnamon oil on top of putting cinnamon in it, but it has the roundest cinnamon taste.

You know how sometimes you get cinnamon and it's like really sharp and it's uncomfortable, but then you get cinnamon and it's like, warm and it's got a good mouth feel.

Mouth feel.

You know, to be fair, I'm surprised we've gone this far in the podcast on ice cream, and this is the first time we're Bringing up mouthfeel.

It's what's gonna get kicked off of Lunchador.

Okay, here's the thing.

You guys said, like, you said mouthfeel 20 times.

Did we.

We said mouth feel that many times?

Really?

20 times mouth feel?

Yeah.

And it doesn't feel like I said that with my mouth 20 times.

Well, I mean, to be fair, it wouldn't just be your mouth that says mouth feel.

My mouth can say mouth feels.

Yeah.

Could be coming from all mouthfeel.

Also tell it feels good coming out of your mouth.

The mouth feel.

The word mouth.

I think we exceeded 20.

Yeah.

I said we'll go back and count.

I'll put a couple more in if I have to.

Can we get an editor's note in this podcast?

Yeah.

How many times mouth feel happens?

This is how much editing I do.

I put the music in the front.

In house editing.

So, yes.

Cinnamon.

Cinnamon ice cream.

I do believe it's.

I.

It's because of the amount of cinnamon and maybe I don't know where they're sourcing the cinnamon, but yes, it's delicious.

I don't like anybody else's cinnamon ice cream.

Let me tell you.

Cinnamon ice cream with apple pie instead of just vanilla.

Oh, hey.

Yeah, right there.

By the way, sky, the cinnamon ice cream, is that pints or.

I almost said half gallon, but it's 1.5 quarts.

They stole half a quart from you.

Just remember that we always used to call it a half gallon of ice cream.

Now it's one and a half quarts.

Wow.

The.

The pints.

Okay.

Okay.

And it's important.

Bright orange one they have, so I could literally.

Visually, I don't have to stop.

I can just be like, it's blaze orange.

It's the one that won't get hit during hunting season.

Be safe, be seen.

Wear blaze orange.

Yeah.

Don't zone out.

All right.

It's not that.

That orange.

It's a burnt orange.

Oh.

I mean, so it was hit by something.

It is dangerous.

Oh, no, it's danger.

Look, you are.

You are.

Yeah.

We're riling up the cat.

Okay.

All right.

Okay.

I didn't go fancy for number four.

You know, I came out hard.

Hard and fast as always.

That is perfect tradition.

Yeah.

With wandering.

Whereas number four, I mean, I think it's not like, your topic, but for me, a nice coffee ice cream.

Oh.

Because it's like.

Like it's got your cream and your coffee and your sugar all together, but in dessert form.

Like, basically, you could have it for breakfast.

Put it in a mug.

You're fine.

Now, Tim, I know this is going to be a problem for you and it's okay.

You can be wrong.

I know that you're cursed with a.

With a tongue that does not understand coffee.

And you know, we all have our problems and our issues and we still love you.

We still love you.

Yeah.

Abstain.

Yeah.

See, you hear that?

I mean, here's the thing.

This works out for me.

More for me.

I don't care.

Good.

Don't like that thing.

I like Thai taste.

Used to have the best coffee ice cream.

Yeah, it was good.

Yeah.

My favorite coffee ice cream is the stuff I can't get anymore.

I think you picked that flavor because you knew that there you just by picking it, you've already eliminated one sibling from arguing against you.

Yes.

Yeah.

It's creamy caffeinated goodness.

It's okay.

Some folks, you know, they don't get it.

You know, it has a certain maturity level you need to reach for a coffee ice cream like, you know.

But that's okay.

That's all right.

You know, not everyone gets there.

Look, I get it.

I hate the flavor.

But I have to applaud the strategy.

Excellent.

That's really all.

You metagame to this one.

Brilliant.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

All right, all right.

Let us now move on to number three.

Three.

Three.

Three.

Three.

So this one.

So this one hearkens back memories of childhood.

Okay.

It's technically not an ice cream, which once.

Let's start.

I'm ready.

I'm ready.

We're ready to fight.

Let's do it.

Let's get in it.

We all have to at some point bring out the, you know, you know, have the argument over a letter of the law versus spirit of the law.

Got you.

But I think I can compel most people to agree with me on this one.

My number three is orange sherbert.

Look.

Is it, may I ask, is it floating in a punch bowl full of Sprite and ginger?

Alex, it can be absolutely.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

That is why.

Why it's my number 3A.

Yes.

I love it in a cone.

You know, we were talking before about blaze orange.

You don't get much more blaze orange than orange sherbert.

I love the fact that technically speaking, if I were to eat orange sherbet and then eat orange the fruit, they don't necessarily taste the same.

I like to think orange sherbert is one of the few examples of something tasting like its color as opposed to the actual maybe fruit or flavor.

It's based on.

But really what it came down to was just.

I don't know if it's a generational thing, but anyone of my age will tell you when.

When they were kids and they would go to parties, usually birthday parties were at their friend's house.

There would be that giant punch bowl filled with orange sherbet and Sprite.

And it was just a magical beverage.

When you're like 7 years old, you're like, this is the greatest stuff on earth.

The parents loved it because there's no caffeine, so it's not like they were getting you caffeinated.

But you know, the texture, especially when you got that scoop where like it was the.

The sherbet was melting, but it was still sort of a solid hunk, like an iceberg in the cup.

And it would slowly, just as it melted, it would just essentially like disperse among the top.

Like it really didn't mix with the soda you had.

Like that.

Yeah.

The frothy foam, like it's a liquid, it's not solid.

Right.

Other state of matter.

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

But so, so, yeah, that's why I put it at number three.

Because, yes, it's something I could eat, you know, scooped in a bowl.

But you know, that's just.

That was one of my key memories was the orange sherbet mixed with the soda.

And that just hit in a way that I don't know if anything like, beverage wise has hit me since.

I mean, Baja Blast came close, but.

But I'm talking original Baja blast, like 20 years ago when you could only get it at Taco Bell.

But yes.

So orange sherbert number three.

Okay.

All right, all right.

You sold.

You sold me on the punch.

You sold me on the punch.

It was.

It's experiential.

I'm like, oh, that, that I.

I know her.

Yeah.

All right.

And I'm hoping maybe this will inspire some people to be like, yeah, I haven't had that in a while.

Yeah, like, now's the time to buy.

All right, do it.

Let's go.

People are going to be like, my God, yes, let's do it.

Yeah.

Eventually, like, there's gonna be some hipster bar probably on Eastern Alexander or somewhere in the South Wedge.

An alcoholic version of it.

Yeah, it's Rochester or sherbet.

Summer, let's go.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

All right.

Sky.

Sky was ready, ready to go.

And then you.

Nope.

And I love it.

Okay.

I mean, if, if you need.

I can do like 5 minutes of Euro beat EDM if we need to Kill some time on this.

Nope.

I.

Please, please, please.

So this is my number three, right?

Yes, number three.

Anybody come up with a sooner, I'm gonna start singing Scatman.

Okay, my number three.

I guess I did all novelties.

All right.

Is it the.

Is it the Ninja Turtle ice creams we used to get from Skippy that, hey, melted and never really looked like turtles?

One of my honorable mentions is wonky eyed character ice cream.

Perfect.

Look at that.

Oh, oh.

Because I think I experienced a lot of that together.

The baseball man gum in the middle.

That's what I want.

Yeah.

Because it was bubble gum flavored ice cream.

This is a whole separate episode.

We can do our top five ice cream novelties.

Yes.

That'll be a summer episode maybe, but.

Sky's doing them all right now.

I'm doing.

Basically.

That's fine.

On that episode.

You can then do your flavors of ice cream.

It'll be.

It'll be an Easter for all of our listeners.

Drumstick ice cream, specifically.

And this can also be.

This is the thing.

I like the combination between ice cream, like thin chocolate.

Don't give me like a thick chocolate layer.

Thin chocolate layer, the peanuts and the cone.

Right.

So I also like, like dilly bar things too.

Right.

But specifically this combo.

And then on the drumstick, they used to give you this much chocolate.

They're giving you this much chocolate at the end.

And then do you know what Trader Joe.

What did Trader Joe's do?

They just gave you the ends of the cones.

It is the most genius thing ever.

Because then I'm like, have I only been eating drumsticks in order to get to that little piece of cone at the end?

No.

That sounds like a question that is a hard look in the mirror before you can answer.

I had to.

I had to.

But it turns out it just leads to the amazingness.

However, did I buy four boxes of Trader Joe's ends of cones?

Yes.

And it's dark chocolate and it's delicious.

But did I also get vanilla ice cream to dip the ends of cones in and made little drumsticks?

So to conclude my number three specifically.

Specifically, the ends of the drumsticks as sold by Trader Joe.

Non.

Ice cream part of the ice cream.

Yeah, yeah.

The cone and the chocolate part of the ice cream.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I can see that.

How that could be your top three best ice cream flavor.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Also, I like how essentially you, like.

I feel like you're a contestant on a cooking show where they do the thing where they deconstruct like, yeah, meal and then reconstruct it or like, they ran out of time, so they just threw a bunch of on a plate and call it deconstructed.

Whatever those guys.

Like, I've done it.

Constructed drumstick by just making a drumstick.

I loved it.

And sometimes when I actually have peanuts, I'll serve it in peanuts.

It's amazing.

It's like everything but the ice cream.

Yeah, I could see.

I can see this.

No, I dip it in a little bit of the vanilla ice cream so.

It can stick just enough for adhesion.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, also, as a fellow drumstick aficionado, I need to know, like, but are we talking like vanilla drumstick?

Are we talking the one with the caramel in the center?

We're talking the ones with the chocolate in the center.

Chocolate.

I get the.

I get the multi pack because then I don't get sick of the plain vanilla.

I don't get.

Because I get overwhelmed by a lot of caramel.

So I would get sick of a whole box of it, and then I would get sick of a whole chocolate one.

But you mix them all together and I just like.

And I go and blind.

And I just pick it out.

I'm like, what do I get today?

It's like a divination, right?

I go, how's my day going to be full of chocolate?

How my day going to be a center of sweetness?

How's my day is going to be boring as fuck.

Never.

It's going to suck.

Yeah.

I was going to say.

Which is the.

Suck.

The vanilla.

Wow.

Wow.

I don't know.

As someone who had vanilla as his number five, I kind of take a front to that.

Yeah, you can affront and.

And take a back to anything you want.

Okay.

That's a problem.

I'll save us.

I'll save us.

Okay.

My number three best ice cream flavor.

It's slightly different because I find a mint chocolate chip very weak.

The chips are always these little, little bits of chocolate.

Like, I love the mint, but, like, they're just like this little, like, it' missing something, right?

I'm like, okay.

These chips, they are, you know, disappointing me.

I wish there was something else I could have with my mint ice cream that would match mint's magnetic personality.

And this.

This is where mint cookies and cream come in.

Because I'm like a cookie.

Like, basically an Oreo has the stability and it has the, like, force of personality to match Mint don't come in with these weak chips or flakes.

My God, a chocolate flake, you know, What?

Don't even be here.

Go home if you're gonna flake me.

Okay.

I want like the crushed up cookies where you might even get a whole half a cookie.

Yes, yes.

Yo, when I get half.

So you're saying my number one because check it out.

My favorite is when you get a whole Oreo, because for some reason, they just shove it in and I literally carve around it.

Yeah, you got to take it out.

Yeah.

It's like buried treasure.

You're having ice cream.

But also it's an activ.

It's an enrichment activity.

Like, oh, what's the biggest chunk of.

Of cookie in here?

You know, it keeps you.

Your mind going.

As we're getting older, I'm like, oh.

And Ben and Jerry's doesn't use, like, I don't like the chocolate chip chips.

I like when, like the, the drops.

Right.

I like when it's like met.

And Jerry's used a big ass flakes of.

Of chocolate chips as if, like off a piece.

I get that.

But for me, I'm like, no, no.

The.

The slightly soft cakiness of the cookie for me will be better than any variation of a harder chocolate.

Like shard, like, like mint.

Mint chocolate chip is full of shards.

The way I feel it is.

I like the cookie because the cookie plus mint, like my lizard brain responds as.

That's a thin mint.

Yes.

You know what?

Maybe that's.

And you can't get that.

That texture is wrong.

If it's a.

If it's a chocolate chip or chocolate shard or a chocolate flake, it feels harsh, right?

Yeah.

Whereas the cookies, like, you can chew on me.

I won't hurt your teeth.

I'm meant to be eaten.

Yeah.

The cookie, the cookie will crumble.

Sometimes those shards, like you take that.

Bite and they're frozen.

It's the hardest that chocolate's ever gonna be.

You know, you're missing a filling.

Yeah, yeah.

You know, but you know what's even better is Ben and Jerry's does a thick top ganache.

It's called.

Is it called top mint?

I forgot what it's called.

But it's this thick, like an inch or two of ganache and then cookies and mint underneath.

So get the big Oreo.

Plus you get, instead of shards, soft ganache.

Yeah.

Here's the thing, though.

Now I'm gonna argue that the ganache is too soft.

I'm real picky about ice cream texture.

I'm like, no, the ice cream's creamy because I gotta.

I'll make sure it Gets a little, little soft and then the cookie matches that.

Whereas like chocolate shards or what?

Some sort of semi liquid chocolate.

Goofy.

And, you know, I usually like goo, but in this situation, texturally, the cookies are the way to go.

Yeah, I mean, the ice cream in and of itself will make it like, meets your goo necessity, so.

Yes, yes, yes.

So it's like if you, if you have the ganache now it's double goo and.

Oh, yeah.

And I like, I like my goo.

No matter what variation of goo it is to.

To be able to stand on its own, you know?

Yeah, yeah, you don't want repetition.

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All right, okay.

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Okay.

Anything else you want to add for number three?

No, just.

It's texture.

It's, you know, just the right level.

Not too hard, not too soft, just where you need to be.

All right, then we are ready to move on to number two.

So my number two sort of, you know, picks up on this idea of ice cream with things in it.

And again, I.

I guess a lot of my ice cream preferences were like all my key childhood memories had, you know, our ice cream inspired, so to speak of.

And, you know, when we were young, it was the dark days of ice cream.

You know, there wasn't a lot of originality.

There wasn't a lot of stuff being put into ice cream.

You know, if you wanted stuff in ice cream, you need to go to an actual ice cream shop and have them put stuff in it.

And it's also around the same time, like, everyone started panicking about, like, eating raw egg, how it could be a bad idea.

And I remember one of my favorite activities when I was a kid was being able to, like, lick the bowl when mom or dad were done making a dessert.

You know, cake batter, but, you know, cake batter, again, a little too liquid.

I wanted something with a little more heft, a little more substance, a little more chew.

So I loved cookie dough.

So that means my number two ice cream flavor is cookie dough ice cream.

Because you get those lovely little globs.

Again, they're usually not too hard.

You can bite into them and then you just get that pop, that pop of raw dough.

So that's that.

There's that little bit of, you know, again, your brain goes, oh, this could be dangerous.

I'm not Supposed to be eating raw dough, but you know, it's frozen.

So obviously any of the bad stuff in it is frozen as well.

I mean, it can't hurt me.

Then again, I, I am the same person who once went to BJ's and bought an entire 5 pound tub of Nestle's Toll House cookie dough ice cream.

Brought that over to Pete and Joey's apartment and the three of us plus three others just ate it.

Like we just all got spoons.

We might have been playing Tabletop Star wars at the time.

Sounds right.

Yeah, you know, it tracks.

But anyways.

But yeah, just, you know, and the other thing I appreciated is they always like, it always feels like it's always the right size of cookie dough.

You know, like it's not a huge like core and it's not like those little like, you know, the.

You already heard us complaining about those small chocolate chips.

The almost like this perfectly like marble sized amount of cookie dough.

And you know, I just think it go.

It pairs very well most of the times with vanilla ice cream.

So yeah, so it was like the two desserts in one.

Like I felt like I was stealing something like, or, or I'd been blessed.

So cookie dough ice cream is my number two here.

It's very much.

If this is how I die.

Oh yeah.

I'll take it.

I'll take it.

Mouth feel.

Exactly.

Cookie dough again.

Excellent mouth feel.

Good mouth feel.

Just got the right texture for the right mouth feel.

So sky mouthfeel.

Yeah.

So I know this is gonna rally.

Because you're not going to mention mouthfeel.

Of course I'm gonna mention.

Just leave us hanging here.

Like where, where the.

Come on.

Wait, wait a minute.

I don't even know these exactly.

All right, we're giving you time, sky.

Like we stalled you.

Yeah.

My favorite flavor.

No, no, this is number two, not your favorite.

Oh, we already said my favorite though.

Oh, sorry.

My number two.

Sorry, my number two.

Because we already said my favorite.

We know it.

My number two is the flavor I make when I go to Cold Stone.

And that's very specific.

Oh, oh, yeah, that's sky ice cream.

You know, that was one of my honorable mentions.

Yeah.

It'S sweet cream ice cream with Butterfinger.

Reese's Peanut Butter cup.

Do not put Reese's Pieces in this because what is that too?

Mouthfeel.

Mouthfeel.

Mouth feel.

So peanut butter cup.

Butterfinger sweet cream.

And then you put peanut butter in there.

Okay.

The Reese's Peanut Butter Chock full.

And then if you want fudge Put fudge.

But if you want more of, like, the, you know, sauce, that's fine.

I put fudge in it.

And this is the time that I will put brown sprinkles in something.

Because of the aesthetic.

It wouldn't look right with rainbow.

So I put brown to those as chocolate sprinkles.

How you say they don't have enough flavor?

They're like, listen, all I know.

All I know is visually, I'm just saying.

I went to an ice cream shop once, asked for brown sprinkles, and they told me to get the out.

So is that code for something?

Yeah, I was about to say like.

Like, brown sprinkle sounds like, you know, it's like the.

Like, if.

If you're like, the ice cream shop sells drugs, and that's the specific order you give so they know what you want.

They're like, yeah.

Because no one would come in and say brown sprinkles.

They'd go brown sprinkles.

You know what I find interesting about we're all brown sprinkles.

Chocolate.

Yeah.

Well, what else would they be?

All right, hold on.

I'm gonna Google brown sprinkles, and I'm gonna Google chocolate sprinkles and see what you get.

Okay.

In case weird.

Don't tell us.

Oh, dear.

Should I be worried?

Brown sprinkles?

First link is to Urban Dictionary.

No, just kidding.

It's not.

Oh, God.

But here's what happens.

You search brown sprinkles, all of the results are for chocolate sprinkles.

Got it.

It's great.

You know what I find the most fast?

Let's put.

We'll put aside.

You know what?

I love you, Sky.

You're my sibling.

We don't have to harp upon brown sprinkles.

It's weird, but that's okay.

I love you.

But what I will bring up in confusion is that this specific, very specific to you ice cream order, the one that if you have any choice, this is the one you get is your number two.

Because.

Because Oreo mint with the thick mint on top from Ben and Jerry's is superior.

And it doesn't require me to put an order and talk to a human.

I could just go pick up that from Wegmans or something and get the.

Out part of the issue is talking to another human being.

It knocks your specific to you order down an entire knot.

Like people.

That is a hell of an inherent flaw in the order.

Like, that's amazing.

Well, like, I like.

I guarantee you, if you, like, go back to ancient Greece and be like, Socrates, Diogenes.

I am going to explain to you my favorite ice cream order, but it is not my favorite ice cream.

I.

I'm fascinated.

I can almost follow the thought process and then hit that final.

But it's the thing you order specifically.

Or I feel like one in this economy.

Or I feel like sky before.

Like, the Senate hearing where, you know, just being very.

Listen, I'm being very clear.

I told you, it's my favorite order.

But not my favorite.

Not my favorite flavor.

I'm a strict constitutionalist.

All right.

Oh, my God.

No, you take.

Wow.

No, it's my favorite order.

And when I have enough spoons, I will get it, because then I'll be able to talk to people.

But I also feel like maybe this should have been saved for our next episode when we do our top five favorite ice cream orders.

Yeah, well, I mean, I don't have top five.

There's literally two.

Wait, what's the second one?

Very understanding.

I swear to God, if you say mint ice cream Oreos now.

Because they didn't have.

No, they didn't have mint before, but now they do have mint as a basic.

So previously it was sweet cream double oreo fudge and then chocolate shavings.

Right.

But now they have mint as a base.

So it's mint ice cream oreos.

Right.

Chocolate Senator, this is.

I don't keep going over this.

So it's.

So your second favorite ice cream order does not crack your top five list of favorite ice cream flavors, even though, essentially it is the exact same thing as your number one flavor.

This is complicated.

I don't know how to.

I need.

I need, like, a dry erase board.

The economy.

I would just Pepe Sylvia.

Ed myself.

I am so far in the weeds on this.

You have David S.

Pumpkins.

Me, I.

I'm out of yarn for this board.

Amazing.

I mean, why.

I feel like I shouldn't even bother.

Like, I can't.

I'm done.

I'm done.

What do I say to this?

I would also like to say, while we were podcasting, I did repair my own sunglasses, and I'm very proud of them.

It's good.

It is night.

Pop those suckers on.

They wear jades.

Oh, no.

Oh, boy.

Okay.

I have to.

I have to.

I have to forge ahead.

All right.

That is the most insane.

One of the most insane every song ever.

Yeah.

It feels delayed on the guy in shades.

Like, I feel like Corey Hart was like.

I'll.

I'll change this later.

I'll change this Later.

There's no way this goes into the book at all.

I just.

I just need a placeholder right now.

Like.

Yeah.

And yeah, it fits into the song.

Oh, wait, is that the final recording?

Wait, wait, what do you mean we don't have the studio tomorrow?

Oh, no.

All advice that I can give to anyone creating something artistically in higher ed or anywhere.

Any placeholder name that you put on something, know that that could be the final thing.

So, you know.

Okay.

So be okay.

My number two.

Oh, yeah.

That's what we were doing.

Yeah, I know.

Because this is number one.

Yet here's what's nuts about it.

Like, this is the most plain of my choices.

I don't know how to follow up that with.

Though it is specific in that my number two is vanilla custard.

Vanilla custard soft serve.

And this, this is where I bring in.

Oh, what are they called again?

All right.

I know the color of the sprinkles.

Yeah.

I feel like it's a flavor thing.

This, this is where it comes in where I love chocolate sprinkles.

On specifically a soft serve vanilla custard.

It's just on a cone, which I'm not even a big cone person, but for some reason all of these things together is almost the perfect ice cream cone.

What kind of cone?

Okay, again, weird.

I'm usually a sugar cone person, but for this specific order that.

Basically a basic cake cone.

I was gonna say.

I would agree.

Waffle cone.

That.

And you're screwing yourself out of sprinkles.

It's.

It's too.

It's too much.

And I feel like the sugar's cone too hard.

You need that like that basic cake style cone to like cradle that vanilla custard.

And then the.

The little bit of texture you're gonna have is the.

The chocolate sprinkles.

Just a loving little kiss of.

Because.

Because any other cone, too much of it goes into the cone before it starts collecting on the outside.

Yeah, it's a cake cone.

It's just a little.

And then they're immediately got to start swirling it and then twist that entire thing into sprinkles.

So whether you're on team Rainbow or team Brown.

Oh my goodness.

Never go coverage.

Yeah.

Gotta get the basic cake.

It takes talent when someone's doing that.

I respect someone who's taking that giant swirl of custard and just literally going upside down into sprinkles.

Like that's.

Every time I'm on.

That should go wrong.

Yeah.

They still have it perfectly.

Like if any Time that thing's gonna have any structural issues, it's because I'm eating it wrong.

Oh, yeah.

Once it gets to me, all bets are off.

Right?

The first.

And I'm like, put it in a cone and then give me a dish too.

Yeah.

So when we were young and we would be sitting in church and we'd almost get the communion, and we'd get the wafers, Right?

The Jesus wafers, they would always taste like the cones, right?

Okay.

I could see it.

And so one, everyone.

It's a couple of times I just daydream about Jesus wafer cones and then ice cream on top.

So I'd be like, why don't we.

Go up to cold stuff?

Correct.

And I'd be like, oh, cool, can I get some ice cream with my Jesus wafers?

And then another time, I'm like, oh, can we get milk?

Because this would make really good cereal and never.

And this is why you don't let children.

I just feel that's how I get banned from the New York State Fair, is I'm gonna show up and they'll be like, oh, what new fair food have you brought?

And I'm gonna be like, jesus ice cream.

Exactly.

Substantiate it.

So, yeah, yeah, this is.

This is the.

The.

These.

These.

Yeah, they're civilian.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

These.

These aren't live fire religious body of Jesus.

These are like, you know, they're stage.

You understand?

Yeah.

So if anyone's curious about what those wafers taste like.

Just one of those cones.

Yeah, just what you do is you just cut the bottom of the cone off.

So before we experience.

Before we get the number, before we.

Get to number one, look at me.

I did some research.

I went to the IDFA website.

That's the International Dairy Foods association, and I looked up what they say is America's top 10 favorite ice cream flavors.

All right, let's find out how wrong America.

Yeah, that's what I was saying.

I was like, I don't know.

All right, number 10, peanut butter cup slash PB cup, which I feel like, is that not the same thing?

What would PB be if it's not peanut butter?

I don't want to know.

Yeah, I.

I feel like if I buy something that's just called PB cup, I assume it's just legally they can't call.

They can't call it peanut butter.

Yeah, I don't know if I want.

To mess with that.

Sometimes off brand, but.

No, not peanut butter.

Yes.

Make sure your cup's got peanut butter.

Everybody, number nine.

Rocky road.

I saw something that's a little too busy.

Rocky road's too busy.

Well, I saw some lists that replace that with moose tracks isn't something that's.

Essentially just rocky road.

Yeah, I think one of them has marshmallows and one doesn't.

Oh, okay, fair enough.

Yeah, but I'm like, all right, nine.

I guess I don't.

Number eight.

And they're wrong.

Chocolate chip.

Not even mint.

Just chocolate chip?

No, just chocolate chip.

Oh, you know what?

7 is?

Mint chocolate chip.

Okay.

I mean, closer, but still wrong.

That's.

All right.

Number six.

And this is weird.

Cookies and cream.

So it's all there together.

It wants to be mixed cookies and cream.

Just.

Just slam all three of those together, and you have your number.

What, two?

What number was that for you?

Oh, for me, that was my number three.

Okay.

See, they would have instantly had a number three.

That's what I'm saying.

Eight, seven.

Six can be three if they just got it together.

Number five.

Cookie dough.

All right, there we go.

Okay.

That feels very much like I came to be in our.

During our childhood.

Yes.

Like, it feels like that was like the.

The golden age of cookie dough ice cream.

Four.

Butter pecan.

Oh, no, that's.

That's up on four.

That's strange.

I'll say.

This.

This might possibly fall into, for me, the avocado brussels sprouts category, which is.

I had really bad version of it when I was a kid, and I just thought I hated it until I got a proper version of it and went, oh, I see.

Yeah.

Maybe we just haven't had a good butter pecan because we pronounce it pecan, and already we're on the wrong foot.

Pecan.

I'll.

I will.

I will be willing to try it and if maybe it's not, like, you know, a crap version.

So.

Okay.

Yeah, it seems too high, especially because the top three are strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla.

Why couldn't they just Neopolitan.

Why couldn't they just.

That.

There we go.

First of all, Neapolitan.

No, you know what I think?

I think of Cloudy with a chance of meatballs.

When the ice cream's falling and you have the vanilla stripe, the chocolate stripe, and just one kid, I was like, yeah, that's right.

That's right.

That strawberry.

Straight for the one kid.

I just didn't like the flavor of chocolate and strawberries.

You just want them on the ice cream.

But I love a chocolate dipped.

Yeah, I get that.

I feel like Neil Python's fascinating But it's like you don't want like that zone where they meet.

Like.

Yeah, there needs to be a barrier.

Like.

Yeah, yeah.

Then at that point I guess just get three.

Three different points.

Like, I don't know how to win.

I mean, obviously I probably couldn't research this.

Why were those the three flavors chosen?

Oh, Ford.

I.

I don't know.

Like, I suppose it probably has something to do with the history of ice cream.

Like, I'm assuming vanilla must have been the kind of the first because it was basically just like dairy's kind of vanilla.

Yeah, right.

You know, I feel like strawberries.

The like.

How was that the first fruit?

You know, Neapolitan ice cream is called such because it's believed to have originated from the city of Naples, Italy, where immigrants brought their ice cream making expertise to the United States.

Particularly introducing a multi flavored style called sponi.

Spumoni.

There we go.

It's some spumoni.

The spumoni.

While early Neapolitan style ice creams might have included different flavors like pistachio and cherry, the modern version with chocolate, vanilla and strawberry became the standard in the.

Oh, yo, we got screwed.

I got some other to add to that.

The first recorded recipe of Neapolitan, duh, Chocolate vanilla strawberry was created by head chef of the royal Prussian household, Louis Ferdinand Jungius.

And first Puckler.

In fact, the German name for Neapolitan ice cream is First Puckler Ice.

Okay, that, that sounds like another brown sprinkle thing where if I said that at a certain place, you know.

Big Heinrich von Puckler, Moscow was a German nobleman.

All right.

Okay.

Hey, this is waffle cones.

Be out sugar cones.

29% to 12% among consumers, but 27% of consumers prefer to eat their ice cream out of a bowl.

Well, I mean, waffle cones are just bigger.

Like they're the.

Between a cone and a bowl is a waffle cone.

Really?

Pecans beat out peanuts.

17 to 16% among consumers.

23% of consumers reported not reaching for nuts to add on their ice cream.

This is all by the way from.

IDFA International Dairy reaching for nuts.